On 7 September 2007 the creator of ConTEXT announced he wanted to sell the project including the full source, copyrights, website and domain.[4] In December 2007 it was announced that the complete project was bought and ConTEXT Project was set up as a company.[citation needed]

In March 2009 the decision was made to make ConTEXT open source but as of March 2013 the editor cannot support UTF8 and has no future[5] and is no longer under development due to licensing issues with one of its components.[6]

^"Freeware Text Editor". ConTEXT has not been developed for a long while. This is because ConTEXT was originally written using Delphi which requires a licence for users to develop with the components used.